Note for the history-minded: The Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography [where 'nation' means Britain] will mail you a biography each day for free. The writing style is quirky and the subjects are always fascinating.
Take today's, Britain's first black footballer. [link]
In a match between Rotherham and [Sheffield] Wednesday at Olive Grove I saw Wharton jump, take hold of the cross bar, catch the ball between his legs, and cause three onrushing forwards—Billy Ingham, Clinks Mumford and Micky Bennett—to fall into the net. I have never seen a similar save since and I have been watching football for over fifty years. (Telegraph and Independent)
On 21 September 1890, at Masbrough, Rotherham, Wharton married a local plumber's daughter, Emma Lister (1865–1944). They had no children, and on Arthur's death Emma declined to lay a memorial headstone or, on her death, be buried alongside him. That her husband may well have been the father of her sister Martha's two daughters, Minnie and Nora, probably explains this seemingly uncaring behaviour.
Well, yes, that would do it.
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